Donnie Yen is set to star in the big-screen reboot of the classic TV series Kung Fu. David Leitch’s 87North is getting ready to reboot the classic martial arts/ western series Kung Fu, and it looks like they’ve found their Caine: the one and only Donnie Yen. The press release doesn’t reveal if Yen is … Read more
I cannot conceive of a movie that is more ’80s than Road House. Patrick Swayze at his most magnetic and muscly playing a “cooler” — basically a very fancy, very elite bouncer, who arrives in a little town in Missouri to clean up a rowdy bar called the Double Deuce, and gets mixed up with a local evil … Read more
For us 90s kids, Dick Tracy was an interesting monster of a movie. It seemed to take a lot of cues from Tim Burton’s Batman, which was released the previous summer, but it definitely had a distinct voice of its own. Dick Tracy was another classic pulp adaptation of an urban enforcer that had very … Read more
Netflix’s business model for the last few years has been all about growing its subscriber base with a nonstop stream of new content, the vast majority of it created in house, so that they would own these titles in perpetuity and wouldn’t need to license things from the long-standing Hollywood film studios. And given the economics of … Read more
The underrated 1992 thriller Unlawful Entry, starring Kurt Russell, Ray Liotta and Madeleine Stowe is finally coming to Blu-ray. The nineties were the golden age of the thriller. Every other week, a star-driven thriller seemed to open in theaters, to the point that everyone took them for granted after a little while, and the genre … Read more
Janine Melnitz is getting promoted. The Ghostbusters’ beloved receptionist — whose famous greeting on the team’s phone (“Ghostbusters! Whaddya want?”) has become one of most quoted lines in the franchise’s history — will apparently suit up as a full-fledged Ghostbuster in the upcoming sequel Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. That much is clear from the new covers of … Read more
One-hit-wonders are an unusual thing. There are endless examples of artists that create something monumental that blasts its way into the pop culture zeitgeist and temporarily enchants and captures our attention. Then as quickly as they came, they seem to disappear. That is the idea behind 1996’s That Thing You Do! Written, directed by, and … Read more
Dan Curtis’ 1976 horror mystery movie Burnt Offerings is getting a special edition Blu-ray release from Kino Lorber. Burnt Offerings Special Edition Blu-ray Details Evil Has a New Home! Step inside a vacation house of horror in this terrifying thriller that does for summer homes what Jaws did for a dip in the surf. Karen … Read more
Jean-Claude Van Damme‘s 1989 action movie Kickboxer will receive a Walmart-exclusive SteelBook Blu-ray release in early 2024. Kickboxer SteelBook Blu-ray Details Accompanied by his brother Kurt (Van Damme), American kickboxing champion Eric Sloane (Dennis Alexio), arrives in Thailand to defeat the Eastern warriors at their own sport. His opponent: ruthless fighter and Thai champion, Tong … Read more
Brett Ratner’s The Family Man was only a middling success in 2000 but has since become a quasi-Christmas classic. Who would have thought that one of the more enduring family movies in the last 20 years would come from Brett Ratner and star Nicolas Cage? Indeed, The Family Man was only a modest success when … Read more